Sunday, May 14, 2017

Such Perfect Love

First Snow by Nikolai Smirnov. Village Farm in Russian provinces***Those Eternally Linked Lives 12 May 14, 2017How could I forget those days we spentin my village when you came for twoweeks to North Carolina? We didn’tsleep together yet our spirits fused.Your warm hands caressed my neckwhen I was driving. You’d take me to a large oak, take off your shoe, andput your foot over mine while we prayedto the spirit in the tree and over all.Sometimes you were angry, or I was, but you’d say we had to talk, and wewould. Such perfect love left us rawwhen anger flared. We’d lose Paradiseand then re-find it. We tried to part,but couldn’t do it. So we carried eachother’s souls the rest of our lives. Your wife and son ministered to your failing human body. You wrote oneletter after I sent you my love poemThis River. You were glad our storywas being told. Your wife forgives me.So do her sons. Somehow I addedrichness to your life as you added grace to mine. The mystery of such love isnever fully understood, but it stays.I will never forget those hours anddays when our souls were simply one.They still are.

About Me

I write mystery novels, poetry, autobiographical books, reviews and articles. My Hoganvillaea Farm provides about half my food. I sell eggs and figs. My newest book, Grace: A China Diary, 1910-16 came out April 12, 2017. The next Penny Weaver mystery comes out June 1,2017: Political Peaches. Formaldehyde, Rooster (2016, Nuclear Apples? The Third Penny Weaver Mystery, 2016. The Sands of Gower: The First Penny Weaver Mystery (2015), Haw (2016): The Second Penny Weaver Mystery. Killer Frost (2012) and Farm Fresh and Fatal (2013) will be re-published in 2017 This River: An Epic Love Poem came out from Wild Embers Press in 2014. You may order all the books from me, as well as my poetry chapbook Beaver Soul (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and This River:An Epic Love Poem (2014): PO Box 253, Moncure, NC 27559 mysteries cost $16, with postage, $19;Grace costs $28, $30 if mailed. Beaver Soul is $13; $16 if mailed. This River is $15 if picked up, $18 if mailed. My PMZ Poor Woman's Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes for Survival and Health in the Menopausal and Post-Menopausal Years. $10; $13 if mailed. I hold the copyright to all the material on my blog, which I've written.